Word: cline
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause is a sharp drop in the growth of world oil consumption since the cartel countries dictated their four fold price increase last year. A 7% de cline in West European oil imports since then has sent tanker charter rates plunging. Before the oil embargo started in October 1973, the cost of a spot charter (one or two trips) of a 220,000-ton super tanker for the 11,000-mile round trip from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam reached a record $8.8 million. By mid-November, the rate had fallen to $2.6 million. Today a 220,000-ton tanker...
...intelligence indicating plans for an imminent Egyptian-Syrian attack, the political leaders of Israel and the United States, incredibly, failed to recognize it." On Oct. 5, Kissinger was at the Waldorf Towers in New York City for the General Assembly session. He did not receive a report from Ray Cline, then head of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, concluding that the war would start the following day or even sooner because "no one wanted to take the responsibility for disturbing the Secretary in New York on a Friday evening after hours...
...picked it all up in his father's studio; the brusque down-Easter with a Huck Finn smile who never went for that French art stuff and never once moved out of America. The weathered faces of Wyeth's favorite subjects -Christina Olson, Karl Kuerner or Ralph Cline, the veteran patriot with a skull like a parchment-covered round shot-have become nearly as familiar as Charlie Brown or Donald Duck. They are seen as icons of survival and indomitability, and their clipped-tongue rectitude evokes the silence of the bald eagle...
...Niemans are: Shirley Christian, the United Nations correspondent for Associated Press; Ned A. Cline, a political reporter for the Greensboro, N.C. Daily News; Nicholas Daniloff, an editor for United Press International; and, Ronald Gollobin, a reporter for the New Brunswick N.J. Home News...
BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH. Director: Ray S. Cline. Employees: 335. Budget: about $8,000,000. Intelligence arm of the State Department since 1947. Charged with gathering and analyzing information essential to U.S. foreign policy. Staffed by economists and academicians. Prepares studies on subjects as diverse and esoteric as Albanian public health system and the clove industry in Zanzibar. Generally considered a "clean," as opposed to "dirty" or covert operation...